A Halifax man who has spent almost half his life behind bars for committing violent offences has been declared a dangerous offender and locked up indefinitely.Christopher Edward Newhook, 40, appeared in Halifax provincial court Monday for the judge's decision on a dangerous-offender application.The Crown launched the application in 2007 after Newhook pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and possession of a knife.On April 3, 2007, Newhook stabbed a man just above his right eye during a dispute in a North Street rooming house where he was living. Newhook thought the man had ratted him out to the landlady for making too much noise.Newhook has about 50 convictions on his criminal record and has served four federal prison terms for violent offences in Ontario. He has associated with skinheads and white supremacists and has committed many of his crimes against visible minorities, although his victim in Halifax was white.An attack on a Vietnamese shopkeeper in Toronto in April 1989 left the man blind in one eye. Mr. Newhook also assaulted two black women on a bus in Toronto in September 1995 and an aboriginal man in Hamilton, Ont., in May 2000.The stabbing in Halifax took place less than six months after Newhook was released from prison after serving an entire two-year sentence for a September 2004 assault with a weapon in Kingston, Ont. In that case, a rent disagreement led him to attack a man with a piece of wood and throw him through a plate-glass window.Crown attorney Catherine Cogswell told the court last October that Newhook is a racist and a psychopath with alcohol-abuse issues whose risk of reoffending is so high that he must be locked up indefinitely to protect the public.The defence asked that Newhook be declared a long-term offender and given a determinate prison sentence, followed by up to 10 years of strict supervision in the community.Judge Bill Digby, who reserved his decision until Monday, accepted the Crown's position.“It is necessary for the protection and safety of the public to declare you a dangerous offender,” the judge told Newhook.Digby did not give the reasons for his ruling, saying he would release his written decision within a couple of days.Cogswell said she was satisfied with the outcome of the case.“These are rare and exceptional applications, and the Crown doesn't take these applications lightly,” the prosecutor said.“As I've said before, Mr. Newhook is a threat to anybody, anytime, anywhere. ... His violence can be planned and premeditated or it can be spontaneous, and they're equally dangerous.”Newhook lost his cool and shouted at the prosecutor during closing submissions at the dangerous-offender hearing last fall.“I hate your (expletive) guts,” he yelled at Cogswell from the prisoners bench. “I wish I could cut your (expletive) head off with a rusty hacksaw blade.”The prosecutor filed a complaint with Halifax Regional Police, who charged Newhook with uttering threats and intimidation of a justice system participant.Newhook appeared in another courtroom Monday on those charges. Judge Michael Sherar adjourned the matter until April 27.(sbruce@herald.ca)

We thought that we would re-post Bob Smith's stirring poem in which he mentions Newhook and other "martyrs" for the cause (Smith is of course one of Don Andrews' fellow travelers). Again, we provide some links for historical background:

This Canada Week, just for a change, instead of the usual fareI thought I'd reflect on our progress up hereAnd the good people who got us there."The only thing needed for evil to win,is for good men to do nothing (at all),"Those were the words of Edmund Burke,and his namesake's Society's call;Always our rock, always our leader, who led us from Day OneTill racial awareness was a household wordDon Andrews got the job done.From the EBS to the Western Guard, to the Nationalist Party's epoch,He was there to man the trenches in frontHe talked the talked and he walked the walk.In a hotel, he, and music teacher Leigh Smith,and Paul Fromm were the original threelaid the EBS groundwork, for a group that would fightFor a Canada independent and free;

And later, in Ottawa, clad in greenDonna Upson caused quite a stir,Running for Mayor in the nation's capitalWas the one they called Baby Hitler.Let us pause in respect for fallen Wolfgang Droege,Led the Heritage Front, then was goneAnd the HF's Jim Dawson, and Ken Barker,They was a big men in more ways than one.Young Geza Matrai, from Hungary,and his daring feat, 'twas quite grandJumping onto commie Kosygin's back,and cried freedom for all captive lands.And John Ross Taylor, wise to the enemy's ways, of their deeds and cunning he'd preach;Longtime enemy of the reds and the Zionists,to them, quite a lesson he'd teach;He cornered them in the courtroom, with the truth that glowed like light;"Truth cannot be a defense" said these weasels;To his last hour he'd not relinquish the fight;There's the man of Allan Gardens,William John Beattie by nameWhen first he hung out the swastika here,free speech would ne'er be the same.

And the Latvian gent Armand Siksna, who would tolerate none who were rudeJim McQuirter, budding Klansman, quite famousAs a racist and a Sunshine Dude.Hats off to all the early stalwarts,serious Joe Genovese and Jaanus Proos;And to the ones who came later like Max French, who wasalternately staid and footloose;Mel McCready, from the Isle of Erin, irrepressible iron-willed boyPete Metrewski and the crew of young skinheadsWho made the reds and ARA holler "oy!"There was stoic and wary Jim Simpson,Bob Ruminski, with a grin ear to earLeo Jutting, the Australian adventurer,who knew the good life, good art and good beer;Gerry "Mad Dog" Doyle, a great friendA hero to the White Nationalist cause,Limey Stephen Hammond, now known as "Andrea"He's just not the man he once was....

And let's pause to also mention George BurdiAn activist and reverend too,In the flesh, and online and in printHe remained a white racist guru.There was Rod Young, who was there from the earliest days,Henrich Van Windt, also alongCaptain David Astle, a movement pioneer,Newshound David Sloan too, did belong,And from the sun-drenched British Columbia coastFred Woodward sent occasional dispatch,And in typing and spelling and clerical finnesseJanice Solary was truly unmatched....

There was a master of metals, Horst Gobbels,With a blowtorch, created beauty,There was young and sarcastic Tom Druery andRomana Andrewchuk, a Ukrainian cutieThere was Janice Arsenault, the Acadian,The HF's Chris Newhook, tough as can be,Dawyd Zarshansky, A.K.A. "Tarzan",His tough guy image fitted him to a "T";...

From Canada's London, there is Martin K. WeicheA man we would occasionally come see,And Al Overfield, the only one of our bandWho could trace his line back to Tecumseh;There was Jeff Goodall, civil servantAnd the electronics whiz Michael Doyle,There was Donna Elliott and husband Wayne, a tree surgeon,made his living with saw, and in soil;And baseball-capped Jimmy Spearin, with a vision he would apply,A white traffic signal man, his idea;"White man says go" was his cry....

There was wrestling's Masked Marvel, Mr. Jack Prins,A kind man, and who always was heardAnd his spirited wife, Sabina,Who went sky-diving and soared like a bird;Gary Schipper, who played axe and railedof "hippie-crites", his passion would burn,And Gerry Lincoln, eclectically interestedIn cats, computers and in Howard Stern;And while we are talking performers,There's Rob Livingston and Janice and moreFlamenco guitarist John Thomas, who knewClassic Spanish music down to its core:There was Peter ("The Actor") Herod;Actor and male model Bob Mann contributed, too;There was Ilmar Kitsas and Urmas TomingProud Europeans both, through and through....

Imprisoned Brad Love, and Ernst Zündel,Caged men whose spirits are still free;Our Dale Gribble, John Morgan and also Russ Varey,Who amused with his flim-flammery.Let us not forget, let us mention honorablyOther stalwarts who should not be missed,Mr. George Barkhouse and Mr. Verner Cinis,the Latvian and anti-Communist....

There was the charming Marian McGuire,Who gave our image more polish and classGeorge Keeping and his brother, always ready for actionAnd willing to kick commie ass;Let us also remember Jack Morrison,From Social Credit's Ontario daysAnd the "Chosen One" novelist Eric Thomson;Was he really in the CIA's pay?

And let us include in this list Marc Lemireand Barbara Kulaszka, here, tooWho hung in against Orwellian tribunals andWould not flee at the enemy's first 'boo';

As we pause now to dwell of the good in this landLet us all in unison celebrateWhat they all did to make our race proud, make it wise, just and goodWhat they all did to make our race great.

Every one is a flag for our racial identityA credit to our race and our nation,And each one of these heroes truly deservesa "Real Order of Canada" commendation.

Let us raise a one-handed salute to them all,Each, a woman or man of the hourFor all, in one way or another helped upholdWhite survival, white prideand White Power!

Ugh, wretched. We continue to wonder why every racist we know seems to think he or she has the soul of a poet? You'd read better verse on a Bazooka Joe comic strip. Still, it is good to know the kind of people that boneheads believe are worthy of praise.

"Newhook/McGraw were just plain animals, back in the W.A.R (Toronto) days."

Wow! That was a long ass time ago. W.A.R. was around in Toronto in the late 1980's, if I'm not mistaken? I remember some of those guys,OBB,WAR,the Islington Crew (Griffin was playing in Vacant Lot, before starting Aryan?). I always wondered what happened to some of the old school guys, except Newhook. Somehow I knew he would be a lifer someday.

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